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Cosmo Wilson 
Cosmo WilsonBirth name Charles B. Wilson Nationality United States Field Stage lighting Cosmo Wilson (born Charles Wilson on February 18, 1961) is a concert lighting designer and director for rock & roll bands, and has been since 1986.[1]
He has worked with over 40 acts including AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Cure, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Foreigner, Genesis, INXS, Iron Maiden, Meat Loaf, Mötley Crüe, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie James Dio, David Lee Roth, Scorpions[2] and Rod Stewart.
He worked on the Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" 1989 tour as Lighting Crew Chief before moving up to Lighting Director in February 1990, where he spent the next 7 months touring Japan and Europe with both "Urban Jungle" and "Steel Wheels" shows.
He has worked with AC/DC since 1990, directing over 600 shows since then, including 1991's "Monsters of Rock" stadium tour, which finished in Moscow on September 28, 1991 at Tushino airfield, where it was estimated that there were over 1.6 million fans in attendance, and was described as the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history. Most recently, he toured with AC/DC on their Black Ice World Tour,[3][4] which lasted from October 2008 through June 2010, and played 168 shows in 29 countries with over 5 million fans in attendance, and was the second highest grossing tour in history.[5]
In the Autumn of 2002, he traveled with the Scorpions on the most extensive rock & roll tour of the old Soviet Union ever undertaken at the time. They played 20 cities over the course of 6 weeks on a tour stretching from Ekaterinburg in the West to Vladivostock in the East.[6][7]
He also has credit for several live concert films, the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels "At the Max" (1991) IMAX movie, Black Sabbath's "The Last Supper" (1999), 4 films for AC/DC- "Live at Donington" (1991), "No Bull" (1996), "Stiff Upper Lip Live" (2001), and "Live at River Plate" (2009); Dio's "Holy Diver Live" DVD (2006), Scorpions "Live At Wacken Open Air 2006" DVD (2007) and Foreigner's"Alive & Rockin" DVD (2007).
Prior to becoming a Lighting Designer, Cosmo worked as a backline technician for such bands as Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Mink DeVille, D.L. Byron and Falcon Eddy, and musicians such as Joan Jett, Ricky Byrd, Willy DeVille, Thommy Price, and Robert Sarzo.
He is currently working with Foreigner on their "Can't Slow Down" World Tour.
References
- ^ Cosmo Wilson - Lighting Designer Avolites Designer Gallery
- ^ Scorpions/Whitesnake/Dokken North American Tour 2003 cosmo.com
- ^ Cunningham, Mark (2009-03-01). "AC/DC: BLACK ICE IN EUROPE". Total Production International Magazine. tpimagazine.com. http://www.tpimagazine.com/production-profiles/242406/acdc_black_ice_in_europe.html. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ^ "Clay Paky lights the AC/DC tour". Total Production International Magazine. tpimagazine.com. 2009-02-10. http://www.tpimagazine.com/News/200468/clay_paky_lights_the_acdc_tour.html. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ^ "AC/DC's 'Black Ice Tour' Is Second-Highest-Grossing Concert Tour In History". Blabbermouth.net. July 26, 2010. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143523. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ The Scorpions Germany’s Top Metal Export Lead Multi-ActAssault tpimagazine.com
- ^ The Scorpions tour Russia- September - November, 2002 cosmo.com
External links
- Cosmo Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
- Cosmo on tour with the Scorpions- Lighting article about the 2004 Scorpions tour.
- "On the road with Cosmo" - Tour Diary
- House of Blue Lights
Categories:- 1961 births
- Living people
- Lighting designers
- AC/DC personnel
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